Topic: Rope harness tag?

Swiftkill said:
Admins just associate hyperonims with subclasses, just because they "might be", "it's easier for common folk to find it". Like BDSM <-> bondage strict link.

e621 is over a decade old.

While we would LOVE to say we get everything right the first time, that is hilariously wrong.

Good god, there's been, like... 50? or more members of the staff over the years. We've had thousands on thousands of forum threads in the tag alias and implications suggestions section. (over 13,500). Some of those involve multiple suggestions.

Most of us are here because we like organizing furry porn, not because we're some sort of expert kinksters who can give you a documented history of BDSM during our lunch break. Honestly.

we fuck up sometimes.

That's why we generally TRY to bring up most of the stuff like this here. That's why we TRY to get as many people involved in the conversation as possible.

But I don't have a bdsm expert on speed dial, y'know? I can do my best research (oh man, and this stuff takes hours to really dig into and even TRY to understand. There have been times that I have poured a full time job's worth of effort into "e621" work.) And yeah, still not an expert.

and sometimes people talk like they're experts and we still get it wrong, or, well, sometimes the world just fucking changes too, y'know? The vore tags have gotten at least 2 or 3 reworks that I know of and we TRY to be comprehensive but.

we've never claimed to be perfect or to always get stuff right, y'know?

Though I've got to admit, that I always find threads that talk about "admin" as if we are a singular omnipresent being that has Always Been and Always Will Be, and Thinks One Singular Thought funny -- we're more like a group of siblings. We all ride in the same car, but there's a lot of different attitudes, opinions, emotions and reactions going on, and there's a lot of bickering that happens sometimes.

As far as bondage <-> BDSM, though. Once upon a time, "bondage" implied BDSM. So you had BDSM on all sorts of pictures where one character is tied up and clearly being raped, or is about to be tortured in a dungeon or beheaded at a guillotine or what have you. This is why "bound" was born. (or rather, was developed)

That choice came around after 2 people with a high interest in BDSM came in, argued it, then went through every single BDSM/bondage post to make sure everything was correct. It made things better. Could it be better still?

SURE! Will we change it? SURE, if you'd like to come up with something better AND go through the 43,000 bondage pictures.

One of most hilarious, but not obvious ones is that nipple implies breast. Not all characters have nipples on breasts, right? Well, association works 99% of time...

The most hilarious part of this is nipples do not imply breasts.

Nipples do not imply anything, actually.

Several things imply nipples -- like nipple piercings, and cum_on_nipples. But nipples itself doesn't imply breast.

I wondered if someone had beaten me to it, and checked in the mod log, but near as I can tell, nipple has never implied breast, at any point in the last 6 or so years.

I'll admit there's been a few things like "cum_on_nipples" implying "cum on breasts" but I think those have all been deleted for years. c_c

I won't deny that these things exist. but generally speaking... If someone points this shit out, we fix it. o_o

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